June 30, 2026 – May 8, 2027

Sky Water Land is the second installment in a series of permanent collection rotations organized within thematic areas. This rotation includes works of collage, drawing, painting, photography, and printmaking that reference or are anchored by the horizon.

The horizon, defined simply, is the intangible line at which the earth’s surface and the sky appear to meet. The horizon line in a landscape composition directs the viewer’s gaze and provides a sense of perspective—it tells them where they are in relation to other elements. On a perceptual level, the horizon represents the farthest you can see and on a cognitive level, the horizon is the curved edge of your interpretive field. It marks the limit of what you know or understand at any given time.

“Horizons are everywhere,” writes poet David Whyte, “both inside and outside of what only feels like our sense of self. The edge between what I think is me and what I think is you is as much a horizon as any line of mountains or that far dark line on the distant ocean. Horizon is the line between what we think we know and what we do not know, between what we think we see and do not see: horizons mark the threshold between the world that I inhabit and the one that seems to wait for me, between a world I can almost understand and what lies beyond the imagination of my present life. Horizons are creative, disturbing, invitational edges just by the fact that they exist.”

The works in Sky Water Land remind us that the horizon is not a boundary to be reached, but a threshold to be experienced—a perpetual invitation urging humanity to look further and imagine what lies beyond the edge of sight.